Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989

ISBN-13: 9780415214742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str.

Bruce A. Elleman

Opis

This text provides a survey of Chinese warfare, both internal and international, from the opium wars of the 1840s through to the end of Vietnam.

Recenzje

'Modern Chinese Warfare is an informative book with some thought-provoking ideas, and readers who are interested in Chinese history should find it useful.' - The China Journal

Spis treści

The opium wars and the origins of China's modern warfare; the Taiping rebellion; the Nian, Muslim and Tungan rebellions; the Ili crisis and China's defense of Xinjiang; the Sino-French war over Anam; the Sino- French war, 1894-95; the Boxer uprising, 1900; Chinese warlords and modern warfare; the nationalists' northern expedition to unite China; Sino-Soviet conflict in Manchuria, 1926-30; the Sino-Japanese war, 1937- 45; China's nationalist/communist civil war; China's role in the Korean war; the 1962 Sino-Indian border dispute and the Vietnam war; the Sino- Soviet territorial conflict; the Sino-Vietnamese conflict.

O autorze

Elleman, Bruce A.